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In linguistics, a yes–no question, formally known as a polar question, is a question whose expected answer is either "yes" or "no".
Description
Formally, yes-no questions present an exclusive disjunction -- a pair of alternatives of which only one is acceptable.
In English, such questions can be formed in both positive and negative forms (e.g. "Will you be here tomorrow?" and "Won't you be here tomorrow?").
Non-polar questions
- Do not necessarily present a range of alternative answers
- May not restrict that range to two alternatives
Questions beginning with "which", for example, often presuppose a set of several alternatives, from which one is to be drawn.
See Five Ws.
See also
- Binary
- Boolean logic
- Exclusive disjunction
- Five Ws
- Linguistics
- Non-polar question
- Polar question
- Question
External links
- Yes–no question @ Wikipedia
